Visual guide to concepts in population genetics.

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Classic models of selection and drift at a single locus

Drift and selection in haploids
Drift and selection in diploids
Fixation in a diploid population

The Kingman coalescent

The structure of a tree
A model for data
Trees
Trees with recombination
Mutation frequencies
Theoretical expectations

Linked selection

Selective “sweeps” (from new mutations)

Describing genetic variation at the sequence level

Population genetic data
Simple descriptive statistics
The complexities of real data
Bioinformatic issues

Appendix

Literature cited

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Selective “sweeps” (from new mutations)¶

This image recreates results from Figure 3 of Kim and Stephan [2002].

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